Money, foreign exchange and derivatives markets
How many Danish kroner are bought and sold each month, and who buys and sells them? What is the extent of the banks’ trading in derivatives such as interest rate swaps and FX swaps? The statistics provide an overview of the Danish money and foreign exchange market and allows you to find, for example, the counterpart sector and currency of the trading.
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A foreign exchange agreement where two parties exchange one currency for another in an initial transaction, with a simultaneous agreement to reverse the exchange at a specified future date. This can be viewed as a secured loan in one currency, with collateral provided in the other currency.
Agreement in which two parties agree to exchange payments of a fixed interest rate (the swap rate) against payments of a variable interest rate over an agreed period of time.
Selected statistics on Money, foreign exchange and derivatives markets
Danmarks Nationalbank produces and publishes the statistics 'Money, foreign exchange and derivatives markets'. Statistics Denmark makes data available to users on this subject page and in Statbank Denmark.
